A communication device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a bit sequence, and a conversion unit that converts the bit sequence to a predetermined complex constellation point sequence including a plurality of complex constellation points including a non-zero complex constellation point and a zero complex constellation point. At least one of the predetermined complex constellation point sequences is a first complex constellation point sequence in which each of a plurality of complex constellation points constituting the complex constellation point sequence is converted to any complex constellation point or zero complex constellation point of a first signal constellation including non-power of two number of complex constellation points. The conversion unit converts one of the bit sequences to at least the first complex constellation point sequence.

Example channel transmission methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes determining search spaces of at least two downlink control channels by a first network device. The first network device separately determines in the search spaces resources occupied by the at least two downlink control channels. Resource scheduled by the at least two downlink control channels belong to one carrier. The first network device obtains the at least two downlink control channels by using the resources. With the embodiments of the present invention, data on one carrier can be scheduled through a plurality of downlink control channels.

A method for a terminal transmitting aperiodic channel state information (A-CSI), and a device using the method are provided. The method is characterised by: receiving a higher layer signal that configures a plurality of PUCCH resource sets; receiving DCI indicating one of PUCCH resources that are included in the plurality of PUCCH resource sets; and transmitting the A-CSI using a PUCCH resource that is determined based on the higher layer signal and the DCI, wherein the terminal selects one PUCCH resource set of the plurality from PUCCH resource sets based on a CSI process to which the A-CSI is transmitted, and transmits the A-CSI using the PUCCH resource that is indicated by the DCI of PUCCH resources that are included in the selected single PUCCH resource set.

Methods and apparatuses for random access procedure. A method at a terminal device comprises receiving information of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource allocation mode from a network node. The PUSCH resource allocation mode includes at least one of interlace or non-interlace. The method further comprises transmitting a first message including a random access preamble and payload to the network node. The payload is transmitted on a PUSCH based on the PUSCH resource allocation mode.

A terminal (200) includes a receiving unit (203) that receives a reference signal within a specified measurement period, a control unit (213) that acquires an average or statistical information of layer 1 reception qualities of the reference signal, the layer 1 reception qualities being measured within the measurement period, and a transmitting unit (201) that transmits the average or the statistical information to a communication node (100a or 100b).

The present inventive concept relates to a multi-antenna channel estimation apparatus and method for performing beamforming in a communication system in which only single channel estimation is possible, and relates to a channel estimation apparatus and method for beamforming in which the transmitter generates pilot signals based on the Zadoff-chu sequence and transmits the generated pilot signals to the receiver, the receiver estimates a channel based on the pilot signal, and feeds back information for beamforming to the transmitter based on the estimated channel information, and it is configured to enable beamforming by converting and setting the signal phase for each antenna according to the feedback received from the transmitter.

Wake-up signal (WUS) downlink control information (DCI) may be configured to convey a wake-up indication as well as UE wake-up behavior configuration information. For example, WUS DCI may include one or more wake-up indications for one or more UEs via wake-up indication bits (e.g., wake-up indication bits may be conveyed in locations of the WUS DCI associated with monitoring indices of the one or more UEs to be activated). For example, WUS DCI may be encoded to include a wake-up indication and an indication of behavior configuration information for a group of one or more UEs. UE wake-up behavior configuration information may indicate some BWP to activate, may trigger a CSI report, etc. A UE may decode the wake-up indication and the wake-up behavior configuration information based on a monitoring index and the WUS configuration.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for capability information for sounding reference signal (SRS) improvements. An exemplary method generally includes determining a capability of the UE related to additional sounding reference signal (SRS) transmissions in a normal uplink (UL) subframe; transmitting, to a base station (BS), capability information indicating the determined capability of the UE; receiving SRS configuration information, wherein the SRS configuration information is based, at least in part, on the capability information; and transmitting at least one SRS in accordance with the SRS configuration information.

Aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus, methods, processing systems, and computer readable mediums for signaling and processing dynamic control channel resources with irregular search space configurations.

A method for transmitting a reference signal in a multi-antenna system is provided. The method includes: selecting at least one orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol in a subframe containing a plurality of OFDM symbols; allocating a channel quality indication reference signal (CQI RS) capable of measuring a channel state for each of a plurality of antennas to the selected at least one OFDM symbol; and transmitting the CQI RS, wherein the CQI RS is allocated to an OFDM symbol which does not overlap with an OFDM symbol to which a common reference signal to be transmitted to all user equipments in a cell or a dedicated reference signal to be transmitted to a specific user equipment in the cell is allocated.